In Larry David's comedy in 1998 "sour grapes", Richie Maxwell (Craig Bierco) has just ended a vacation in Atlantic City with his cousin Evan (Steven Webber). Richie almost had no money after gambling his budget. He is in a quarter. At exit from the casino, he asks Evan for 50 extra cents so he can throw it in a slot machine of 75 cents. Evan agrees. One withdrawal of the machine wins Richie 436,000 USD. This immediately leads to a long -standing argument for who has a legal and moral right to profits. Richie was the one who decided to gamble the money and the one who pulled the handle, but Evan was the one who lent him the quarter -finals to make it possible. Evan claims that he at least owes him two -thirds of the jackpot.

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This leads to a series of more and more dark scenarios that prove how terribly desperate are both men. Richie keeps all the money while oncologist Evan, trying to panic, lies to Richie, saying he dies of Richie's cancer. Comedy? The dilemma will also lead to a patient with cancer by accidentally collecting both testicles. Double comedy?

"Sour grapes" was surrounded by critics who described it as extremely dirt and otherwise too dependent on the toxic human trifle to be fun. Roger Ebert They gave the movie zero starsevels infamouslyWriting, "I can't easily remember a movie I enjoyed less. It's a dead zone. "Overall," sour grapes "only has a 27% approval grade Rotten tomatoes (based on only 15 views) and made a $ 123,000 coat at the box office.

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It is costuminally that David has made "sour grapes" because he has previously proved his universally beloved comedy of the comedy of the hit series "Seinfeld", which was still broadcast at the time (Although David left the series in 1996). What happened?

This may be a nervous appeal, but "sour grapes" even made a mistake. David seems to think that the phrase "sour grapes" is about being a sick loser. The phrase actually comes from one of the fables of the Aesop, where the fox cannot reach grapes growing on the vine. Instead of continuing to try and attract them, the fox gives up, judging the grapes anyway. It is a story of justifying one's failure, not being a sick loser.

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Despite David's involvement, everyone stayed away from "sour grapes", with the general consensus that it is too bitter and cruel to cause laughter. This may result from a broader misinterpretation of Seinfeld. The series, we can recall, comes from Jerry's striking humor Seinfeld, who mined jokes of everyday phenomena that most people can relate to. It is also inserted into elements of a quaddian trifle on which we all sometimes fall prey. The Seinfeld TV has stepped up the tinyness, making sure that each of its four waters (themselves based on real people in David's life) were all shallow, terrible faces. "Seinfeld", however, presented everyone as perhaps relative, so some may have made a mistake when they thought they were loved and human.

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"Sour grapes", in that feature film, is cut right in the darkness of David's ethos, bypassing the relativity of Seinfeld and giving audiences only shallow. It is similar to Seinfeld only in its philosophy. Without some degree of self -awareness, "sour grapes" play more like a tragedy. Anyone can only see how pathetic and hated the leading characters are.

To one of the DVD -Audio reviews for songs for David FBO series "prevented your enthusiasm,"David (who plays himself on the show) explains that the decorators set up logically put a" sour grape "poster on his office Wallid. David demanded that the poster be downloaded. He did not want to be reminded of the artistic and commercial failure he involved.

Needless to say, David has not made a movie ever since.